Newsletter Information

November 14^th, 2014

Notes~

v Practice the last sounds a word makes.  Ask your child to identify them.

v Practice our word wall words that come home each week.

v Practice names of 2D and 3D shapes.

v Practice writing numbers to 50.

v Listen to your child read their take home book.

What We Are Learning~

We spent the first week of November working on voting/elections.  This was a very interesting topic to spend some time on.  The students got to learn about ballots, voting, and even do some voting of their own.  Ask about our classroom cookie election.  It was fun and tasty!  Then we moved on to Long Ago/Thanksgiving work.  This will take us through to the end of the month.  We will be busy learning about Pilgrims, Indians, and the life long ago.  We will be working on a variety of comprehension strategies while studying about Thanksgiving.  These strategies are: asking questions, visualizing, and checking for understanding.  We have also been very busy learning our word wall words.  We have introduced our first 25 and are working hard on the last half of the list.  These words are a bit harder!  Keep practicing them at home!

In math we have just begun our new unit on numbers to 20 and above.  We started the first week on just learning to count and write the numbers from 11-20.  We spent a lot of time discussing the number pattern that they will see while writing these and counting them.  Then we moved on to discussing the actual make up of these numbers.  We have been working on part, part, and whole.  What 2 numbers make up the number are the 2 different parts and the number is the whole.  Ask your child about their work!

We have been working very hard on our writing!  WOW!  We have really improved our skills.  We have been working on being “famous authors”.  We have looked at how their pictures show details, their words match the pictures, and even how when they think they are done, they have just begun.  It has been great to see all the progress we are making each day!  Have your child show you a little writing for them.

Upcoming Events~

v November 19 – Early Out

v November 26, 27, 28 – No School

v December 4^th – 6:30 at the HS Aud.

v December 10^th – Early Out

v December 24 – January 2- No School Winter Break